Willie Nelson covered Beck’s “Lost Cause” on his latest album Last Leaf on the Tree. Nelson, 91, sings about hopelessness; he’s confronting mortality. Singing about mortality in the abstract is one thing, but very few have the perspective of someone who has walked this planet for nearly a century. Beck was a young man when […]
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